Senate gives favorable report to bill addressing district attorneys' retirement overlap

The Senate gave a favorable report to HB542, a bill described by members as correcting a retirement benefit anomaly affecting some district attorneys who have service recorded in two different systems.

The clerk called HB542 as "Representative Shiver." A chamber speaker identified in the transcript as the chairman explained the bill: "This is dealing with retirement benefits for district attorneys. I understand this correctly. This is trying to cover a gap between our district attorneys that have served in, a supernumerary, I e on a county level, and also those that that subsequently get into the retirement system." The chairman continued that current law prevents those individuals from being paid under both systems and that HB542 would "correct[] that anomaly for this group only so that those folks can have the, those that are in that circumstance will be able to collect all of their assets in during their retirement."

Members recorded a motion and a second and voted by voice. The clerk announced the result as a favorable report. The transcript does not name who moved or seconded the motion, and no roll-call tally appears in the record provided.

The explanation in the transcript frames the bill as narrowly targeted to persons in the described circumstance; no implementation details, fiscal estimates, or statutory citations were given in the provided excerpt.